Description: SECTION I. TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS Chapter 1. A Conceptual Tool Kit Chapter 2. Thinking About Social Problems 1. The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills Why history is necessary to understand experience; how social problems (issues) differ from individual troubles 2. Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection, Patricia Hill Collins How everyone's life experience exists within overlapping structures of race, gender and class 3. The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are, Barbara Katz Rothman How science constructs problems and solutions 4. Why I Love Trash, Joshua Gamson How the media shapes our common sense understandings of difference and deviance 5. The Reproduction of Inequality: Interactionist Analysis,Michael Schwalbe, Sandra Godwin, Daphne Holden, Douglas Schrock, Shealy Thompson, Michele Wolkomir How our uncritical choices and behavior remake inequality every day SECTION II. SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND INEQUALITY Chapter 3. Power, Capitalism and Globalization 6. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism, William Greider How the forces of global capitalism contribute to worldwide inequality 7. Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption, George Ritzer How U.S. consumerism is affecting other cultures around the world 8. Corporate Welfare, Donald L. Barlett and James B Steele How the U.S. government spends more money on aid to wealthy corporations than on aid to the nation's poor 9. The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery, Kevin Bales How contemporary forms of slavery are created and maintained within the global economy 10. Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women in the Global Economy, Grace Chang How immigration laws lead to the economic exploitation women Chapter 4. Poverty 11. A World of Poverty, John Isbister Why wealthy corporation share responsibility for the conditions of impoverished countries 12. Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity, William Julius Wilson How poverty and racism limit the choices available to individuals in poor neighborhoods 13. The Enemy Within, Ruth Sidel Why women on welfare have become the scapegoat for a variety of social problems 14. Without a Safety Net, Barbara Ehrenreich and Frances Fox Piven What happens to former welfare recipients when the jobs are gone 15. Making Ends Meet on a Welfare Check, Katheryn Edin and Laura Lein An examination of the many difficulties facing families on welfare Chapter 5. Race and Ethnicity 16. American Diversity and the 2000 Census, Nathan Glazer How race has been constructed through 200 years of governmental census taking 17. Exploring Asian Americans: The Myth of the "Model Minority" and the Reality of Their Lives, Jieli Li How racial stereotypes obscure ethnic differences and real social problems 18. The Black-White Test Score Gap, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips How biased edicational tests hinder the success of non-whites 19. The Place of Women Inside Organized Racism, Kathleen Blee How traditional gender roles support organized racist groups 20. Beyond Black and White: Ethnoviolence Between Oppressed Groups, Barbara Perry How intercultural violence works to maintain social boundaries, group privileges, and racial hierarchies Chapter 6. Gender and Sexuality 21. Supremacy Crimes, Gloria Steinem Serious consequences of media blindness to the gender of the killers at Columbine High School 22. Why Gender Matters: Women, Militarism, and Violence, Amy Caiazza Why attention to women is necessary to curb support for terrorism and to secure peace 23. Domestic Violence Among the Navajo: A Legacy of Colonization, Diane McEachern, Marlene Van Winkel, and Sue Steiner

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